Occupy
Louisville is in the news after they posted an eviction
notice on the doors of Chase Bank due to the banks “financial
negligence and the ruin of the community.” The protesters demanded
the bank must vacate their offices and “any properties under their
control.” While they claim police brutality, and it's hard to tell
what's going on, the whole scene appears a bit antagonistic. One of
the protesters admits their actions were “a little less than
perfectly peaceful.” Raw footage below :

The Louisville action was part of their
“day of action to stop Chase foreclosures” as Occupy pivots to
focus on foreclosures, and the human stories and the banks behind
them. In the same vein, Occupy San Francisco staged a “flash mob”
outside the Russian Hill home of Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf,
according to both the occupy site and the San
Francisco Business Times, which features a slide show of the
demonstration. The occupiers cite the fact that Wells Fargo is
evicting citizens in spite of turning
a nearly $16B profit and receiving $43.7 billion in bail-out
money. Occupysf.org

A single arrest at Occupy Sarasota
also is generating attention. The arrest, which allegedly took place
over a chalk drawing, is being investigated by the American civil
liberties union. Sarasota
Patch

Like many, Occupy Claremont is
planning their next actions after their tents came down. The group
met by the dozens outside of city hall this weekend. "This party
is not to say goodbye, but to provide solidarity to continue the
occupation which will be here every day, without the tents,"
said Charles Bayer, 81, of Claremont, who helped organize the Occupy
Claremont movement. San
Bernadino Sun

Oakland continues to try to make
sense of the events surrounding its occupation. Reporters Daniel
Willis and Thomas Peele of Bay Area News Group have written a series
of articles that attempt to document and analyze the complexities of
the occupation and the city's response. Today the reporters publish a
series of email communications between city officials. According to
the scribes “we need to be ever diligent against getting snowed by
officials and falling into the role of stenographers rather than
independent reporters. All of us, me included, can find ourselves
regretful when we learn that the bureaucratic rhetoric we reported
turns out to be far from reality.” San
Jose Mercury News

Yes Men and Occupy Wall
Street hit the wire while America tried to stay up through the
Oscars. (ny
times) It seems the group and Occupy are partly the focus
of the nearly 5 million corporate emails leaked by Wikileaks and
derived from hacked servers at Stratfor, the company that calls
itself a “global intelligence firm.” wikileaks
release

In addition to suggesting quasi-legal
dealings with financial giant Goldman Sachs, and numerous connections
with US intelligence and defense agencies, the data dump is
remarkable for its concern about the broad and expansive critique of
the economic system offered by Occupy and other activists.

The ripped emails were provided by
activist spooks Anonymous who keep making news. Today's NY Times
has an article on how the group's attack on the Vatican's servers
served as its first big action. NY
Times